Iichi Marumo started competing in his late 80s, after a life spent farming, publishing poetry and volunteering to fly in a ...

There was one certainty about being a kamikaze, he says: “You go, and it’s over.” He survived only because Emperor Hirohito announced Japan’s surrender on the radio as he was his way to ...

Japan’s war situation from then on only grew worse. By autumn 1943, the idea of a kamikaze squadron had been floated by a small circle in the military, according to a military history ...

At age 16, he joined the Imperial Japanese Navy’s preparatory pilot training course and became a special unit member in October 1944. After seeing the first kamikaze unit swing into action off ...

During the Second World War, the term 'kamikaze' was used for Japanese fighter pilots who were sent on suicide missions. They were expected to crash their warplanes into enemy warships.